Swift X-ray Observations of Classical Novae
Astrophysics
2010-03-19 v4
Abstract
The new gamma-ray burst mission Swift has obtained pointed observations of several classical novae in outburst. We analyzed all the observations of classical novae from the Swift archive up to 30 June, 2006. We analyzed usable observations of 12 classical novae and found 4 non-detections, 3 weak sources and 5 strong sources. This includes detections of 2 novae exhibiting spectra resembling those of Super Soft X-ray binary Source spectra (SSS) implying ongoing nuclear burning on the white dwarf surface. With these new Swift data, we add to the growing statistics of the X-ray duration and characteristics of classical novae.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0703286,
title = {Swift X-ray Observations of Classical Novae},
author = {J. -U. Ness and G. J. Schwarz and A. Retter and S. Starrfield and J. H. M. M. Schmitt and N. Gehrels and D. Burrows and J. P. Osborne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0703286},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Accepted for ApJ; this version contains additional material: 18 pages, 16 figures